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California law enforcement agencies are embracing new approaches to mental health crisis calls. But some activists still want a solution without police, including volunteers in Nevada County who came together after a fatal shooting.

Health Care

Health Officials See Bright Future in Poop Surveillance

March 27, 2022

Sewage surveillance is proving so useful in mapping covid trends that many public health officials say it should become standard practice in tracking infectious diseases.

Health Care

‘An enormous disabling event’: Long COVID could have inequitable impact on Californians

March 27, 2022

Latino, Black and low-income people with inadequate health care could suffer the most. California doesn’t have many long COVID specialists, and disadvantaged communities are underserved.

State Government

Overdue: State owes community clinics millions for COVID vaccinations

March 19, 2022

A year after ramping up to vaccinate 6 million low-income residents, community clinics are in dire final straits waiting for state money. Some are cutting services.

Health Care

How UC Davis unified the city and university to fight COVID-19

March 12, 2022

The University of California-Davis has spent close to $50 million preventing the spread of covid on campus — and among residents and workers in the adjacent city of Davis.

State Government

New bill could have California voters weigh in on daylight saving time — again

March 11, 2022 | Nicole Nixon

California voters passed a ballot measure in 2018 which could have led to the end of daylight saving time in the state. Spring forward four years, and residents will still be changing their clocks this weekend.

Health Care

As U.S. COVID deaths near 1 million, advocates press for a memorial day

March 10, 2022

Millions of people in the U.S. have lost someone they love to COVID-19, and advocates hope to have those losses marked each year on the first Monday in March.

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Sacramento, Yolo and other area counties have dropped their mask mandates. Here's what that means.

March 2, 2022 | Janelle Salanga

Counties and the state cite a reduction in cases, widespread availability of vaccines and a need to “learn to live with COVID’” as reasons that the universal masking requirement is being lifted.

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